Selected chapters: Observed climate changes in Croatia Climate
... changed according to data series prolonged by 2008 (Table 1-5). Less changes are present with Osijek, where attenuation of negative spring precipitation trend was observed, but still remaining statistically significant, as well as weakening of negative autumn precipitation trend and strengthening of ...
... changed according to data series prolonged by 2008 (Table 1-5). Less changes are present with Osijek, where attenuation of negative spring precipitation trend was observed, but still remaining statistically significant, as well as weakening of negative autumn precipitation trend and strengthening of ...
Climatic Threat Spaces as a Tool to Assess Current and Future
... increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The climatic anomalies during these years can be identified as one of the possible stressors when ...
... increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The climatic anomalies during these years can be identified as one of the possible stressors when ...
Read More... - Greater Sudbury Climate Change Consortium
... in the detailed report); over the next four to six months all partners will be actively engaged to create the partnership network. 3. Climate Change adaptation strategies and risk management measures must address impacts on water resources, both quantity and quality; municipal and NDCA infrastructur ...
... in the detailed report); over the next four to six months all partners will be actively engaged to create the partnership network. 3. Climate Change adaptation strategies and risk management measures must address impacts on water resources, both quantity and quality; municipal and NDCA infrastructur ...
Abrupt climate change: can society cope?
... Direction. All the IPCC scenarios contain basically unidirectional curves of climate change, at least at global and large-regional scales.† A non-standard abrupt scenario therefore could be when the direction of climate change alters in a sustained manner, for example, when climate substantially war ...
... Direction. All the IPCC scenarios contain basically unidirectional curves of climate change, at least at global and large-regional scales.† A non-standard abrupt scenario therefore could be when the direction of climate change alters in a sustained manner, for example, when climate substantially war ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... Figure 1: Visitor expenditure under various climate change scenarios ....................................................... v Figure 2: Map of Montserrat ....................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 3: Breakdown of ...
... Figure 1: Visitor expenditure under various climate change scenarios ....................................................... v Figure 2: Map of Montserrat ....................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 3: Breakdown of ...
Climate change in Australia | Central Slopes cluster report
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
Climate Reconstruction from Subsurface Temperatures
... climatology investigations that can assess and place in context the human perturbation of Earth’s climate must focus on the industrial era, comprising approximately the past two centuries, and the preindustrial era, comprising the several centuries preceding that. From approximately 1860, meteorolog ...
... climatology investigations that can assess and place in context the human perturbation of Earth’s climate must focus on the industrial era, comprising approximately the past two centuries, and the preindustrial era, comprising the several centuries preceding that. From approximately 1860, meteorolog ...
Growing Together in a Changing Climate
... Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and their actions have resulted in widespread media coverage and the mobilization of thousands of their peers. It is estimated that 200 young people participated at the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its thirteenth session held in Bali in December 2007, 500 at COP 14 in ...
... Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and their actions have resulted in widespread media coverage and the mobilization of thousands of their peers. It is estimated that 200 young people participated at the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its thirteenth session held in Bali in December 2007, 500 at COP 14 in ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change
... until the deep ocean temperature approaches the freezing point of ocean water. Late Pleistocene glacial–interglacial deep ocean temperature changes (Fig. 1c) are only about two-thirds as large as global mean surface temperature changes (section “What Is the Dangerous Level of Global Warming?”). Eart ...
... until the deep ocean temperature approaches the freezing point of ocean water. Late Pleistocene glacial–interglacial deep ocean temperature changes (Fig. 1c) are only about two-thirds as large as global mean surface temperature changes (section “What Is the Dangerous Level of Global Warming?”). Eart ...
Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in
... 2005). These studies are conducted at broad scales, and focus on long term changes in average climate conditions ...
... 2005). These studies are conducted at broad scales, and focus on long term changes in average climate conditions ...
Financing climate change - Department of Environmental Affairs
... around these issues, the Department of Environmental Affairs commissioned focussed research into these focus areas and used the findings of this research to focus and inform discussions in key stakeholder workshops on each of the topics in February and March 2011. Although the independent research a ...
... around these issues, the Department of Environmental Affairs commissioned focussed research into these focus areas and used the findings of this research to focus and inform discussions in key stakeholder workshops on each of the topics in February and March 2011. Although the independent research a ...
Climate Systems Regional Report: Southern Africa
... Southern Africa's continental climate is generally hot and rainy in summer with cold and dry winters. This largely results from the atmospheric systems that dominate the regional climate; namely an anticyclonic high pressure system over the continent during winter and an intermittent thermal trough ...
... Southern Africa's continental climate is generally hot and rainy in summer with cold and dry winters. This largely results from the atmospheric systems that dominate the regional climate; namely an anticyclonic high pressure system over the continent during winter and an intermittent thermal trough ...
Proposal for funding for the Preparation of
... making the country eligible for funding under the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. In August 1998, Cambodia started to implement a Climate Change Enabling Activity Project (CCEAP) supported by GEF/UNDP and executed by MoE. The CCEAP has helped Cambodia to meet its commitments under the UNFCCC thr ...
... making the country eligible for funding under the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. In August 1998, Cambodia started to implement a Climate Change Enabling Activity Project (CCEAP) supported by GEF/UNDP and executed by MoE. The CCEAP has helped Cambodia to meet its commitments under the UNFCCC thr ...
1 - WMO
... The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have recognized the importance of high quality well spaced data for climate-related purposes and have noted that, in many instances, either the geographic coverage, quantity or quality of the data produced by current g ...
... The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have recognized the importance of high quality well spaced data for climate-related purposes and have noted that, in many instances, either the geographic coverage, quantity or quality of the data produced by current g ...
Maske für Factsheet (Vor- und Rückseite), Stand Mai 2006
... Based on satellite observations since the early 1980s, there is high confidence that there has been a trend in many regions towards earlier ‘greening’ of vegetation in the spring linked to longer thermal growing seasons due to recent warming (see map 8, 12, 34). ...
... Based on satellite observations since the early 1980s, there is high confidence that there has been a trend in many regions towards earlier ‘greening’ of vegetation in the spring linked to longer thermal growing seasons due to recent warming (see map 8, 12, 34). ...
Climate change impacts on groundwater hydrology
... and Bastola et al. (2011). Much less studies have been performed for groundwater aspects, and to our knowledge no guidance exist on the relative importance of the various sources of uncertainty affecting climate change impacts on groundwater. The large uncertainties on the hydrological impacts rende ...
... and Bastola et al. (2011). Much less studies have been performed for groundwater aspects, and to our knowledge no guidance exist on the relative importance of the various sources of uncertainty affecting climate change impacts on groundwater. The large uncertainties on the hydrological impacts rende ...
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... warming, when combined with altered rainfall, is that in the mid-latitudes yields of crops in some major grainproducing areas (such as the Great Plains of the United States) may be reduced due to more frequent droughts and heat waves (Cline 1992, UNEP 1999). By contrast some currently marginal agric ...
... warming, when combined with altered rainfall, is that in the mid-latitudes yields of crops in some major grainproducing areas (such as the Great Plains of the United States) may be reduced due to more frequent droughts and heat waves (Cline 1992, UNEP 1999). By contrast some currently marginal agric ...
Review of relevant assessment processes and their theoretical
... selected because of their status as well-accepted intergovernmental efforts and their demonstrated importance for policy-making. The assessments were also selected due to their reliance on an agreed-upon conceptual or theoretical framework. The review of assessments and studies of relevance to tradi ...
... selected because of their status as well-accepted intergovernmental efforts and their demonstrated importance for policy-making. The assessments were also selected due to their reliance on an agreed-upon conceptual or theoretical framework. The review of assessments and studies of relevance to tradi ...
From Climate Science to Adaptation Decision-Making Mark Stafford Smith
... monitor, reassess until next decision point ...
... monitor, reassess until next decision point ...
Climate Change and Poverty in Mozambique
... It is, therefore, no wonder that Country Office (CO) staff draw strong linkages between climate change, their mission and activities – especially those concerned with food security, natural resource (including forest, soil and water) management, and humanitarian response to emergencies. Staff recomm ...
... It is, therefore, no wonder that Country Office (CO) staff draw strong linkages between climate change, their mission and activities – especially those concerned with food security, natural resource (including forest, soil and water) management, and humanitarian response to emergencies. Staff recomm ...
Political parties` climate policies in the UK, Italy and Denmark Paper
... and Grantham Research Institute, 2011; Bailey and Compston, 2013 for examples).6 However, party documents are not simply lists of policy proposals: much text simply expresses a party’s general attitude or sentiment on an issue. Therefore, we also identify quasi-sentences that acknowledge climate cha ...
... and Grantham Research Institute, 2011; Bailey and Compston, 2013 for examples).6 However, party documents are not simply lists of policy proposals: much text simply expresses a party’s general attitude or sentiment on an issue. Therefore, we also identify quasi-sentences that acknowledge climate cha ...
Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change
... The Value of Expert Consensus The consensus view of experts can have significant influence on both policymakers and public opinion.4 In an effort to clarify consensus on climate issues, the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and asked it to provide a cle ...
... The Value of Expert Consensus The consensus view of experts can have significant influence on both policymakers and public opinion.4 In an effort to clarify consensus on climate issues, the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and asked it to provide a cle ...
MAPPING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY IN NORTH AFRICA
... Model projections suggest that North Africa’s average temperature will increase by 2.16°C (almost 4°F) by mid-century, compared to the period 1980-2000. The IPCC Fourth Assessment reports that the global average projected temperature change for midcentury is an increase of 1.8°C (for the same time p ...
... Model projections suggest that North Africa’s average temperature will increase by 2.16°C (almost 4°F) by mid-century, compared to the period 1980-2000. The IPCC Fourth Assessment reports that the global average projected temperature change for midcentury is an increase of 1.8°C (for the same time p ...
CHAPTER 3: Climate for Change? Civil Society and the Politics of Global Warming
... the economics of climate change mitigation. First, some groups contest the reality or scale of global warming, challenging the notion of a scientific consensus on climate change. Various petitions have been organised by scientists including the so-called Oregon Petition organised by Frederick Seitz, ...
... the economics of climate change mitigation. First, some groups contest the reality or scale of global warming, challenging the notion of a scientific consensus on climate change. Various petitions have been organised by scientists including the so-called Oregon Petition organised by Frederick Seitz, ...
The Long Time Scales of Human-Caused Climate Warming: Further
... choices are quite daunting: we can make very large policy commitments now with little visible short-term payback, or we can delay policy action indefinitely (the de facto current strategy), with very large coping and adaptation costs decades and centuries from now. This is the Global Warming Dilemm ...
... choices are quite daunting: we can make very large policy commitments now with little visible short-term payback, or we can delay policy action indefinitely (the de facto current strategy), with very large coping and adaptation costs decades and centuries from now. This is the Global Warming Dilemm ...
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change, and to isolate climate signals from ""noisy data"".As lead author of a paper produced in 1998 with co-authors Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, Mann introduced innovative statistical techniques to find regional variations in a hemispherical climate reconstruction covering the past 600 years. In 1999 the same team used these techniques to produce a reconstruction over the past 1,000 years (MBH99) which was dubbed the ""hockey stick graph"" because of its shape. He was one of 8 lead authors of the ""Observed Climate Variability and Change"" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report published in 2001. A graph based on the MBH99 paper was highlighted in several parts of the report, and was given wide publicity. The IPCC acknowledged that his work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.He was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003 and has received a number of honors and awards including selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and awarded the status of distinguished professor in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.Mann is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, published in early 2012. In 2013 the European Geosciences Union described his publication record as ""outstanding for a scientist of his relatively young age"". He is also a co-founder and contributor to the climatology blog RealClimate.